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If you are technical geek of sorts you already know about T-Mobile’s G1 and the Blackberry Thunder as a few of the first phones to try to compete with the iPhone 3G.\u00a0 According to a post on US News & World Report, Blackberry is introducing a new competitor, called the Storm that will offer 2 virtual keyboards.\u00a0 The Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon customers and features a unique clickable screen.\u00a0 They do not have an actual release date yet, just stating that it will be available sometime later this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[118,1035,1036],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cell-phone","tag-iphone","tag-sales-tool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-se","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":662,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/crackberry-thumb\/","url_meta":{"origin":1750,"position":0},"title":"CrackBerry Thumb","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I am speechless: Graceful Services recently started offering a BlackBerry Finger Massage that promises to help eliminate neck, back and finger-cramping caused by excessive typing on tiny BlackBerry keyboards. 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